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Kalli Purie, Vice-Chairperson and Executive Editor-in-Chief, India Today Group, delivered the vote of thanks at Business Today's Most Powerful Women 2024 awards...
What amazes me about this room full of truly exceptional women is that most of them here have forged their own unique paths, chosen the road less taken..
They have journeyed here, switching careers, countries, cities and accepting impossible challenges..
In fact, most women can attest to thismore likely than not, their soulmate is another woman.. The best friend, the sister, the daughter, the colleague, who is willing to listen to the same lament for the 100th time; she who will pick up your phone in the middle of anything anytime; tell you that you have lipstick on your teeth; counsel you through the imposter syndrome; encourage you to raise your hand, step on toes; stand by you in whatever your choices are; co-parent your teenager as the cool masi; drop everything for you; rehearse your bridal walk to your CEO speech; pick a fight out of loyalty to you and sometimes; by doing nothing at all but just breathing silently on the other side of the line...
We saw it in the just wrapped up tightly contested US elections with iconic women across fields endorsing presidential candidate Kamala Harris from Beyonce, Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, and Michelle Obama to Taylor Swift, all of them championing what could have been a watershed moment for womens rights...
